6000HP Twin Engine Towboat TUGMONITOR System
2024 | Marine
PLC-based engine monitoring and alarm system for a 6000HP twin-engine vessel, communicating via Ethernet with onboard GE engines.
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Matrix Engineering
Paducah, KY
Engineering Excellence Since 1995
- Services
- 23
- Offices
- 1
- Projects
- 15
- Leaders
- 2
- Founded
- 1995
- Size Estimate
- 1-24 employees
Overview
Matrix Engineering is an industrial consulting engineering practice based in Paducah, Kentucky, serving clients in the chemical, pulp and paper, power, manufacturing, and marine industries across the U.S. and internationally. Founded in 1995, it specializes in bulk material handling, chemical process systems, industrial controls, and marine systems. Through its sister entity, Matrix Industrial Systems Inc., it also designs, supplies, and installs complete system packages including proprietary products such as the DENSI-FEED patented pulverized fuel system and the TUGMONITOR towboat alarm system.
- Founded
- 1995
- Size Estimate
- 1-24 employees
Services
Bulk Material Handling Systems
Custom engineering and supply of specialized handling systems designed to manage problematic materials and fine powders, incorporating precise feeding and dust mitigation.
Pulverized Fuel and Petcoke Systems
Engineering of patented continuous-feeding systems for fine powders directly from storage silos, optimizing combustion and fuel conversions.
Process Engineering and Chemical Systems
Technical design and optimization of systems for handling hazardous, corrosive, or high-temperature chemical reactions.
Industrial Controls and Automation
Integration of PLC-based operating systems and certified electrical enclosures to automate complex production cycles.
Marine Systems Engineering
Designing specialized machinery, life-safety breathing systems, and vessel monitoring solutions for marine applications.
Industrial Buildings and Process Structures
Structural, civil, and mechanical design for multi-story process plants, supports, and sanitary manufacturing facilities.
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Projects
Georgia Aquarium Shark Tank Breathing Air Control System
2020 | Atlanta, GA | Georgia Aquarium | Marine
Complete life-safety critical breathing air control system for a 1.2-million-gallon shark tank attraction. The project involved engineering and supply of a PLC-based control system, umbilical, festoon system, and multiple redundant air supply stages certified to UL 508A standards.
View project sourceP2O5 Lump Dissolve Feeder
2021 | Chemicals
Heavy-duty variable speed screw feeder designed for metering phosphorus pentoxide into a dissolve tank. The unit features 316L stainless steel construction and specialized seal and bearing protection to withstand hot phosphoric acid exposure.
View project sourceFrac Sand Processing and Rail Loadout
Chippewa Falls, WI | Industrial
PLC programming and network communications for a frac sand processing and distribution facility.
View project sourcePharmaceutical Spray Dryer Building
1996 | Pharmaceutical
Civil, structural, and mechanical design for a 70-foot-tall, five-story spray dryer facility used in pharmaceutical clay production. Work included the layout of sanitary dense-phase pneumatic conveying systems and blending systems, with a second identical twin facility added twenty years later.
View project sourceSportable Scoreboards Factory and Office Facility
2002 | Sportable Scoreboards | Manufacturing
Civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering for a 29,000-square-foot manufacturing and office facility. The design covered comprehensive site work, foundations, lighting, power distribution, HVAC, natural gas piping, and computer network infrastructure.
View project sourceVanlube Process Expansion
1999 | Murray, KY | Vanderbilt Chemical | Chemicals
Civil, structural, and mechanical design for a process addition handling flammable liquids at a chemical facility. The scope included process and packaging areas, tank farm, truck load-out, complex grounding, and electrical classification drawings.
View project sourceBriggs and Stratton East Addition
2002 | Briggs and Stratton | Manufacturing
Mechanical and electrical engineering for a 6,800-square-foot facility addition. Work included power distribution design for a machine shop and assembly area relocation, along with roof-mounted hot and chilled water coil air handling units.
View project sourceWickliffe PetCoke Conversion Project
2009 | Wickliffe, KY | NewPage | Pulp & Paper
Turnkey engineering, supply, and installation of a petroleum coke kiln conversion system for a paper mill, delivering substantial fuel savings.
View project sourceClass II Combustible Dust Collection System
2022 | Industrial
Design of an industrial dust collection system to safely manage corrosive and combustible iodine dust in a classified Class II environment.
View project sourceClass I Drum Filling Control System
2022 | Industrial
Engineering and programming of a PLC-based drum filling control system designed for operation in a classified Class I hazardous environment.
View project sourcePharmaceutical Combustible Dust Drum Packaging System
2022 | Pharmaceutical
Design of a pharmaceutical-grade powder packaging and drum filling system, engineered to manage combustible dust within a Class II Division 1 and 2 environment.
View project sourceHigh Capacity Multi-Source Vacuum Convey System
2022 | Industrial
Engineering of a high-capacity vacuum conveying system featuring fourteen alternating sequenced inlets discharging through a 10-inch line at 15.0 metric tons per hour.
View project sourceMicro-Ingredient Batching and Vacuum Conveying System
2021 | Industrial
Design of a multi-source vacuum conveying system with multiple destinations, incorporating micro-ingredient batching capabilities.
View project sourceHygroscopic Polymer Storage and Bin Vent Filter System
2020 | Chemicals
Mechanical and electrical engineering to design a specialized bin vent and dry nitrogen purge system for storing Carbopol. The system vents the hopper and cleans filter bags on demand, featuring a bin discharging aeration setup to prevent bridging, engineered for a Class I Division 2 Group D and G environment.
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Leadership
Darren Jarvis
Owner
Michael Eck
Co-Founder